Shops in Rome

Shopping Essentials

Where: Rome, capital of ItalyWhat’s in store: Great deals on leather crafts and chic but stylish fashionsBag a bargain: Bags and shoes are of the highest quality at good value costs

Leather

Ibiz Roma
There are some lovely designs in this shop and everything is made in the workshop next door, so you can have anything made to measure. They only use the best hides that are tanned as only the Italians know how!

If your shoes need a complete makeover go to Antonio, but don’t phone – he doesn’t have one – go in person. If you ask for a business card, he will point to your shoes and say ‘everyone walks out of here with business cards on their feet’.

Clothes

All around the Spanish steps and the Piazza di Spagna, the Via Condotti, Via Borgognona and Via Babuino, you will find more designer clothes than you can shake a very beautiful and expensive stick at.

For clothes that you don’t have to take out a second mortgage out to buy, try the Via Nazionale and the Via del Corso.

Mario Bianchetti
Via della Pigna, 18
Tel – 00 39 06 679 4837
Any fashion-conscious clergy in the family? Well take them back something from what you could call the clerics’ Prada. Featured in the Pilot Guides: Rome programme, the store is just round the corner from the Pantheon.